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   by hv23 14y ago

   Hey HN, we've noticed that people are starting to understand how valuable design is these days - in order to make great products, design is arguably as important as engineering. Like HN-er @shl says, "everyone in a company needs to learn de
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   Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab.(trydesignlab.com)

   122 points by hv23 14y ago|89 comments
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   by hv23 14y ago

   This reminds of Kanye West-- when he recorded his last solo album ('My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy', which was unequivocally a critical and market smashing success), he rented a house in Hawaii with a studio in it, flew out all the produ
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   by hv23 14y ago

   Historically, yes-- due to the likes of University of Phoenix, etc.-- but this is already changing as large, well-respected institutions like Stanford and MIT embrace different methods of online learning. Sure, taking an online course (or s
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   by hv23 15y ago

   Love the idea! Sent you an email I was having about payment issues a couple hours ago, any word? Looking forward to checking out the videos.
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   by hv23 15y ago

   Also not passing judgment, but here's a comment from that thread that might be relevant here: "I'm super impressed you turned this out so quickly. I think that really sums up the spirit in the HN community... When you look at something that
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   by hv23 15y ago

   sounds good, grazie!
8. 68.▲
   by hv23 15y ago

   My browser keeps freezing at the PayPal step. Any other way I can give you my money? ;)
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   Key Resources to Learn Django(tech.yipit.com)

   39 points by hv23 15y ago|1 comments
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    by hv23 15y ago

    You're right - this works especially well for areas with ever-evolving resources and best practices, like web design or HTML5 development. A feature we're planning to implement soon is the ability to request specific resources that others
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    by hv23 15y ago

    Good call! I can see that being a big buzzkill.
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    by hv23 15y ago

    Thanks! We're hoping that people on HN pay it forward and help new learners by sharing resources that they found useful when they were first learning.
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    by hv23 15y ago

    Thanks! And yes, apologies about the Facebook-only login for now.
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    by hv23 15y ago

    Comparing equivalent courses is a great idea- we think there's a lot of valuable metadata to be gathered about each course/piece of content out there, and among other things want to allow people to use that info to find and sort the best ma
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    Show HN: Help us curate the web’s best content for learning programming & design

    49 points by hv23 15y ago|20 comments
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    by hv23 15y ago

    I would definitely pay for a reliable snapshot service with an API. 100%. Build this, take my money, please!
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    by hv23 15y ago

    Thanks, we're working hard on getting a good public release out soon! We'll post a Show HN when we're ready to go live.
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    by hv23 15y ago

    I'm not too familiar with the intricacies of insurance but what would happen if you were to continue rock-climbing and mitigated your risks (by climbing in a gym with toprope and a partner, etc.) such that you were never actually fatally
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    Ask HN: Looking for hackers/designers to join our education beta

    6 points by hv23 15y ago|2 comments
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    by hv23 15y ago

    I thought this excerpt from a Krishnamurti talk (found in a link from this thread: http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-tex... ) sums up meditation perfectly: "To learn about meditation, you have to see how your mind is
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    by hv23 15y ago

    That's just what we're working on at Polymath! http://www.whatispolymath.com
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    by hv23 15y ago

    Pro-tip: check out Crunchbase ( http://www.crunchbase.com ), and look through all the recently funded companies ( http://www.crunchbase.com/funding-rounds?page=1 ). These are startups that are pretty much all hiring-- one of the primary rea
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    by hv23 15y ago

    This looks similar to what Tipjoy (ex-YC) tried a couple years ago, before they deadpooled: http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/08/micro-blogging-meets-micro-... In line with the post that @avichal wrote the other day ( http://avichal.wordpres
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    by hv23 15y ago

    Ah, the proverbial 'Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule': http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
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    by hv23 15y ago

    We're working on the content curation problem @ Polymath-- http://www.whatispolymath.com . We have a short video up explaining our approach, and should have a beta out soon. All feedback welcome!
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    by hv23 15y ago

    Another data point to support the three year number being thrown about, this one from the founder of Yipit writing about their early struggles: "It took us almost three years to know what exactly we had to do during those three days." http
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    by hv23 15y ago

    One of my favorite pieces by him-- http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20fede...
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    by hv23 15y ago

    Talking more doesn't necessarily mean you're saying more. To use another popular adage that drives the point home: brevity is the soul of wit.
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    by hv23 15y ago

    Disappointed with the misleading title of the post-- "Jonathan's Card revealed as viral marketing campaign". Browsing the comments, it's clear that a lot of people are jumping to conclusions without reading the full blog post (as is the won
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    by hv23 15y ago

    +1, there's definitely an interesting pattern of Facebook acquiring top Apple-related design talent. TechCrunch has a series of posts on "Project Spartan", a high-priority project within Facebook where they're rumored to be making a new mas